Last Saturday night I got to go to my first Clutch show. We were originally going to go on Friday night, but Chris won tickets from WSOU for the Saturday show! (He only won 2, so me Ray and Matt Bradley split the other 2 tickets. Still, not so bad). The show started off with [...]
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Redemption rocks. After being totally let down the first time I saw Stone Temple Pilots at PNC Bank Arts Center last year, I was happy to actually get to see them kick ass the 2nd time around. I made the trek down to Virginia Beach from DC to meet up with Mr. Beach just in [...]
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My ears are ringing.You can’t help but play Every Time I Die’s “New Junk Aesthetic†at inappropriate levels. The Buffalo based Post Hardcore, Post Southern Metal, Post Myspace, Post Lastfm tag band returns to the scene with another genre defying album that, by most accounts, meets the quality standards of their previous efforts.ETID’s newest album [...]
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Smashing Pumpkins founder (and only remaining original member) Billy Corgan and former Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Dave Navarro will team up to play a small show in Visalia, California tonight. What was originally intended to be an acoustic performance by Corgan has turned into a full-blown performance that will include Navarro [...]
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Every Time I Die has a new album, New Junk Aesthetic, coming out in a couple of weeks on 9/15. A couple of month ago, they released a song from the new CD called “The Marvelous Slut,†which I talked about briefly in my article “Goodbye, Drummers,†along with a link to download it. Of [...]
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So, out of a whole slew of CDs that I have purchased recently: "Death Is My Only Friend" by Death By Stereo, "III" by Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, "It Hates You" by He Is Legend, and Killswitch Engage's new Self-Titled, I'm going to talk about He Is Legend's newest effort. I'll eventually get [...]
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Today the all new but still bad ass Alice In Chains debuted their new video for “A Looking In View.†New lead singer William DuVall definitely holds his own without trying to imitate the late Layne Staley. “A Looking In View†features heavy straight forward riffs that will not be out of place on mainstream [...]
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The drummers from two of my favorite bands have parted ways with their groups. Warren Oakes of Against Me! and Mike Novak of Every Time I Die have left their respective bands for personal reasons.I learned of Mike Novak’s departure via Keith Buckley’s (lead singer of ETID) twitter feed last night. Who thought I would [...]
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Richard Branson is a madman and I love it. The founder of Virgin Group has once again blown my mind by announcing that this year’s Virgin Fest, which has been held at Baltimore’s Pimlico Race Course in past years, will be moved to Merriweather Post Pavilion and tickets will be…FREE. Absolutely, 100% free. In fact, [...]
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Ray posted back in March that Thrice were back in the studio working on their 7th studio album. Just a few more updates. The band announced that the new album will be entitled Beggars and it should be coming out in October this year. Here’s an excerpt from the press release announcing the new release [...]
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